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Let Simple Be The Mantra

Suraj — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:59:28 +0000

In a recent blog post by Chris Brogan, titled Simplify and Package the Sale, he stated “Let simple be the mantra. Make your contracts brief, small, simple. Make your projects short, finite, and clear. Make your deliverables obvious, simple, and measurable.”

Simplicity in thought, speech and action with everything we do is becoming incredibly important in a world where our diaries are blocked out to the max doing things that we think would make us happy, but where we are in fact squeezing away time to do the very things that will serve us long-term.

Simplicity in thought comes about through reflecting on the nature of the world around us, just how impermanent it all is, and seeking out the source of abundant bliss within.

Simplicity in speech shines through when we hear of wise people who neither speak without being asked nor interrupt when another person is speaking.

Simplicity in action is the ability to perform our everyday duties and rising above all the elements that are pleasing or displeasing to our senses. Having taken care of these simple everyday duties, our time and focus can be put towards seeking fulfilment from the treasury within.

Through simplicity, in all it’s forms, we make life a process of purification. How does simplicity apply in your life right now? What can you simplify to support your quest for permanent happiness?

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Music Is Just A Frame For Silence

Suraj — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:26:57 +0000

In Kavit Haria’s most recent post on No Pauses, he writes about how he has put more gaps into his presentations, therefore allowing the audience some space to absorb what he has just shared. As Kavit writes, “Good music and good communication is exactly the same, they both contain changes of pace, pauses, and full rests.”

Well Kavit, it’s true that music is just a frame for silence. Without gaps between the notes, music would just be noise! It’s those stunning silent moments that create works of such beauty.

Definitely slow down, create more gaps in music, in speech, in life. Use those gaps to think, reflect, and embrace the opportunity to serve your listener better.

Even in life, make the most of gaps between activities to ensure that every single thought, spoken word or action is purposeful and playful.

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Clear As A Mountain Lake

Suraj — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:55:31 +0000

“The mind becomes as clear as a mountain lake at dawn, perfectly mirroring its surroundings, and at the same time revealing its depths to those who look more closely. When this clarity comes, every moment is full of affirmation, beauty, and peace.”Clarity of mind is one of the outcomes of the Vipassana meditation technique.

For more on the technique, visit http://www.dhamma.org, or get hold of “The Art of Living | Vipassana Meditation | As Taught By S. N. Goenka”, a book by William Hart, ISBN 81-7414-008-5.

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Gandhi on Silence

Suraj — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:36:16 +0000

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 – 1948)

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Silence, the Vipassana way

Suraj — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:53:19 +0000

One of the greatest tools I have within reach that I use consistently in my life is the power of silence.

Throughout any Monday, from just after the 59th second of 11.59pm on a Sunday evening till the moment I wake up on Tuesday morning, I enter a mode of “speechlessness”. Monday is my day for becoming quiet, whilst getting on with the flow of life from an observational angle. Really, it’s just an opportunity to listen more intently…

Next month, from Wednesday November 15th, I’m taking this practise of silence to the next level where I will “indulge” in a 10-day stretch of non-speaking, and just observing my thoughts. Based at the Dhamma Dipa Vipassana meditation centre in Herefordshire (west of England), I will be entering a process of self-purification by self-observation.

Vipassana, meaning to “see things as they really are”, aims for the complete elimination of toxic thoughts, and works towards complete liberation, a state of moksha where we experience abundant, infinite, eternal bliss. As you know, your thoughts determine the words you speak, which transform into your actions and in turn what is attracted into your life.
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Speech-less

Suraj — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:00:45 +0000

Sol, silent…

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